Botou City泊头市

With over 1,400 years of history, Botou ranks with Foshan and Wuxi as one of China's three great casting bases; it has 322 foundries with 4 million tons of designed annual capacity and RMB 23.5 billion revenue in 2022, and is the only 'China Green Casting City'.

The first 'Hometown of Automotive Dies in China', with over 80 core die makers and 75 supporting firms producing 30,000 die sets a year, about 20% of the national market; one of the densest auto panel die clusters in China.

A major air-pollution-control equipment base: 106 manufacturers with RMB 4 billion annual output, 13 series and 200 varieties of dust collectors and parts, about 9% of the national market—the largest base north of the Yangtze.

• cast-iron cookware
• cast-iron crafts
• dust collectors
• desulfurization equipment

Export markets: Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, Africa

Botou is the 'No.1 Ya Pear Town of China' with 25,000 mu (approx. 16,700 ha) of orchards producing over 400,000 tonnes annually—ranking first nationally in both area and output—with exports to many countries.